Director of Graduate Studies and Tara Singh and Balwant Kaur Chattha and Gurbax Singh and Kirpal Kaur Brar Professor of Sikh Studies; Faculty Associate A/PIA
amandair@umich.edu
Office Information:
202 South Thayer Street
6016 STB
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608
Religion;
India;
World Philosophies;
Decolonial Theory
Education/Degree:
Philosophy: MA. (with Distinction), Ph.D. University of Warwick, UK, 1999
Chemistry: B.Sc. (Hons. First Class) CNAA; Ph.D. Aston University, 1989
About
Arvind-Pal S. Mandair specializes in Sikh and South Asian studies. His current research and teaching interests cut across several different fields including: Global Philosophies, history and theory of religions, cross-cultural and continental philosophy, decolonial theory, translation studies, philosophy of technology, political theory and the study of spirituality and consciousness.
Book Publications:
- Religion and the Specter of the West:, Columbia University Press (2009)
- Philosophical Reflections on Śabad: Event-Resonance-Revelation (Marquette University Press (2023)
- Violence and the Sikhs, Cambridge University Press (2022)
- Sikh Philosophy, Bloomsbury Academic Press, (2022)
- The Sikh World (with Pashaura Singh), Routledge (2023)
- Sikhism: Vol 8 of Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, Springer (2017)
- Sikhism: A Guide For the Perplexed (Bloomsbury 2013)
- Secularism and Religion-Making (with Markus Dressler, Oxford University Press 2011)
- Teachings of the Sikh Gurus (with Christopher Shackle, Routledge 2005)
- Sikh Religion, Culture and Ethnicity, co-edited with Christopher Shackle & Gurharpal Singh. Routledge (2001)
Books in Progress:
- Geophilosophical Encounters: Diasporicity, Decolonial Praxis, and Minoritarian Thought, Routledge (expected 2026)
- The Routledge Companion to the Guru Granth Sabih (co-edited with Pashaura Singh)
- Sites of Thinking (co-edited expected 2026)
- War Machines: Sovereignty, Violence and Civic Space (monograph)
He is founding editor of the Routledge journal Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture and Theory and co-edits three book series: Routledge Critical Sikh Studies: Encounters Aross Disciplines (with Routledge); Geophilosophies (with Michigan Publishing); and Transmodern Times (forthcoming with Rutgers University Press). For details about his research, teaching, publications and outreach activities please visit his personal website: https://www.arvindpalmandair.com/
